Head of the BPC Veniamin Met with Preacher Graham; a Cult Expert Was Present at the Meeting
Franklin Graham, President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, was invited to the Minsk Diocesan Administration. Viktor Ham, Vice-President of the association, also arrived with him.
Photo: BPC
The BPC website emphasizes that the meeting participants condemned proselytism — attempts to convert people to one's faith, discussed strengthening interfaith harmony in Belarus, and also expressed hope for the cessation of military conflicts, the establishment of peace, and the restoration of good-neighborly relations between countries and peoples.
The BPC website notes that since the early 1990s, the Graham family has maintained good relations with the Belarusian Orthodox Church, represented by Metropolitan Filaret.
However, Vladimir Martinovich — a Belarusian theologian, researcher of cults and new religious movements — was present at the meeting, as noted by "Christian Vision".
Today at 5 PM, the Protestant "Festival of Hope" will start at "Chizhovka Arena," which will be attended by Franklin Graham, who met with Lukashenka yesterday.